Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of fourteen books, including The Devil’s Highway, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestsellers The Hummingbird’s Daughter and Into the Beautiful North; and Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life, winner of the American Book Award.⤨A tenth-anniversary edition of The Devil’s Highway is forthcoming in 2014. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.